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Halifax, Nova Scotia, is known for its tall ships and pub crawls, and for being the final resting place for some victims of the Titanic sinking. But the east-coast Canadian city will soon have another, more unlikely draw–as home to some famous pop-culture images taken by one of the world’s best known photographers.

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia said Thursday that it has been given more than 2,000 photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz, including a Vanity Fair 1991 magazine cover of a very pregnant Demi Moore, a 2001 image of a grizzled Willie Nelson, and a 1984 photograph of a cheeky Whoopi Goldberg soaking in a bathtub full of milk. There are also landscapes and still life photos.

Halifax–about a two-hour direct flight from New York City–might seem an odd choice for a major contemporary art collection. But Ray Cronin, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s director, said the institution has been building its photography collection over the past eight to ten years, “and this becomes the anchor for quite a remarkable photography center.” Read More »

Here are a few of the stories that caught our eye this Thursday morning.

In an annual quest, a Newfoundland sea captain heads into the North Atlantic to capture chunks of icebergs for a local vodka maker, a brewer, a winery and a bottled-water outfit. It’s a look inside the life of an iceberg harvester.

A backbench MP from Alberta who is known for criticizing his own government has resigned from Canada’s Conservative caucus, citing amendments made to his private member’s bill seeking public disclosure of the expenses and salaries of well-paid public service workers.

Peter MacKay says he would think about leaving the Conservative Party he helped found, if the rules currently in place to choose the next leader are changed at the party’s convention in Calgary later this month.

Monsanto said it is considering sabotage as a possible cause of the finding of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an Oregon field and that its test reaffirms the incident is isolated.

The small Art Gallery of Nova Scotia will become the permanent home to an exhibit of work by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. Read More »

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